9-letter words containing s, p, r, a, d
- ponderosa — a North American pine tree
- port said — a seaport in NE Egypt at the Mediterranean end of the Suez Canal.
- posigrade — of, relating to, or designating motion in the same direction as the current or normal motion
- post road — (formerly) a road with stations for furnishing horses for postriders, mail coaches, or travelers.
- posteriad — toward the posterior; posteriorly.
- practised — skilled or expert; proficient through practice or experience: a practiced hand at politics.
- preadjust — that aids in preadjusting, that makes later adjusting easier by advance preparation
- predatism — the state of living as a predator or by predation.
- preshaped — the quality of a distinct object or body in having an external surface or outline of specific form or figure.
- presidial — presidential
- prewashed — being washed before sale, especially to produce a soft texture or a worn look: prewashed blue jeans.
- prisiadka — a step in Slavic folk dancing in which the dancer squats on the haunches and kicks out each foot alternately; the characteristic step of the kazachok.
- prosodial — of or relating to prosody
- prosodian — a person skilled in prosody
- purchased — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- push-card — punchboard.
- redisplay — to display again
- redtapism — excessive formality and routine required before official action can be taken.
- resampled — a small part of anything or one of a number, intended to show the quality, style, or nature of the whole; specimen.
- rhapsodic — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
- sand pear — Asian pear.
- sand trap — (on a golf course) a shallow pit partly filled with sand, usually located near a green, and designed to serve as a hazard.
- sand-trap — (on a golf course) a shallow pit partly filled with sand, usually located near a green, and designed to serve as a hazard.
- sandpaper — strong paper coated with a layer of sand or other abrasive, used for smoothing or polishing.
- sandpiper — any of numerous shore-inhabiting birds of the family Scolopacidae, related to the plovers, typically having a slender bill and a piping call.
- sapphired — blue-coloured
- scampered — to run or go hastily or quickly.
- scrapyard — A scrapyard is a place where old machines such as cars or ships are destroyed and where useful parts are saved.
- separated — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
- shipboard — Archaic. the deck or side of a ship. the situation of being on a ship.
- shopboard — a shop counter or work bench
- slip road — A slip road is a road which cars use to drive on and off a motorway.
- spaceward — going into space
- spadework — preliminary or initial work, such as the gathering of data, on which further activity is to be based.
- spar deck — the upper deck of a vessel, extending from stem to stern.
- sparsedly — in a scattered manner
- spattered — to scatter or dash in small particles or drops: The dog spattered mud on everyone when he shook himself.
- spearhead — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
- speedread — to read (something) very quickly
- spermatid — Cell Biology. one of the cells that result from the meiotic divisions of a spermatocyte and mature into spermatozoa.
- spiderman — a person who erects the steel structure of a building
- spikenard — an aromatic, Indian plant, Nardostachys jatamansi, of the valerian family, believed to be the nard of the ancients.
- spiralled — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- spodogram — the ash pattern produced by incinerating a plant
- sporidial — relating or belonging to one or more sporidia
- spot card — spot (def 10b).
- spraddled — to straddle.
- spreathed — sore; chapped
- springald — a youth; young fellow.
- stampeder — a sudden, frenzied rush or headlong flight of a herd of frightened animals, especially cattle or horses.